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Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted Monday four inflatable smuggling boats carrying in total over 500 illegal migrants. The captured migrants, off coast of the North African country, were returned to their Libyan departure point. In 2017, about 119,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Italy from across the Mediterranean while more than 3,100 died making the crossing, […]
Morocco has the second biggest mining sector in the Middle East and North Africa, BMI, a Fitch Group company, said in a recent study. BMI’s Risk Reward Index showed that Morocco came second with a score of 56.3 out of 100 preceded by Saudi Arabia ranking first with a score of 59.5. The study explained […]
Bahraini’s Gulf Air will launch five weekly flights on the Casablanca air route on June 11, the airlines said. Gulf Air said it will operate its newly acquired Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners on the Casablanca-Manama air route. The new destination is part of an expansion plan of the Bahraini carrier, which aspires to emulate the success […]
Morocco’s membership in the Pan-African Parliament was formally enacted at the opening of the sixth ordinary session of the pan-African body in Midrand, near Johannesburg, on Monday. Five Moroccan MPs representing the Justice and Development Party (PJD), the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), the Constitutional Union (UC), the Istiqlal Party (PI) and the Popular Movement […]
Shiite proselytism led by an Iranian diplomat positioned in Algiers has started annoying some conservative circles in Algeria, reported Arabic-language daily Echourouk, Saturday. Unlike the campaigns launched by opponent Anouar Malek, who is exiled in Belgium, in 2017 and early 2018, cautioning against the influence of the mullahs in his country, this time it is […]
As was expected, member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) promised to vote for Morocco’s 2026 bid on June 13 as it runs against the joint North American bid. The decision to back Morocco’s candidacy to organize the tournament was approved by OIC’s foreign ministers at the 45th session of their council. Morocco […]
Morocco is unrelenting on its crackdown on the returning foreign fighters who joined the ranks of the Islamic state, Abdelhak Khiam, head of Morocco’s counter-terrorism agency (BCIJ), said. “We have arrested and brought to justice more than 200 returnees,” Khiam said in an interview with AFP. He said the suspects were serving sentences ranging from […]
Djibouti has expressed its full support for Morocco’s territorial integrity, while Rumania said it is against any interference likely to harm the North African country’s stability, in reaction to Rabat’s decision to cut diplomatic ties with Iran over its support for an alliance between Hezbollah and the Polisario separatists. “I reaffirm in this context the […]
Morocco’s unemployment rate fell to 10.5% in the first quarter of 2018 as Moroccan economy managed to create 116,000 jobs in a year. Last year, unemployment rate stood at 10.7%, the High Commission for Planning (HCP) said in its latest statistics. Services, agriculture and construction created 50,000, 43,000 and 32,000 jobs respectively. Manufacturing lost 9,000 […]
Donald Trump has recently tweeted a threat to the countries that don’t vote for the joint North American bid to host the 2026 World Cup. Such tweets have so far played in favor of Morocco’s rival bid to host the tournament. “The U.S. has put together a STRONG bid w/ Canada & Mexico for the […]